They see a microscopic flash at fertilization, a burst of fluorescence that marks a sudden release of zinc from the human egg. Scientists call this burst the "zinc spark," and they now see it as a ...

How a sperm and an egg fuse together has long been a mystery. New research by scientists in Austria provides tantalizing clues, showing fertilization works like a lock and key across the animal ...

An unexpected discovery about fertilization from the University of Virginia School of Medicine reveals new insights on how sperm and egg fuse and could have major implications for couples battling ...

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Northwestern University has received a three-year, $1.6 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to support reproductive science research focused on understanding the chemical ...

Today Future Fertility, a Toronto-based biotech startup, announced the world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) tool for objectively and non-invasively evaluating human eggs to predict in vitro ...

THE use of the phase-contrast microscope for the study of certain stages in the fertilization of rat eggs has been described 1. It was pointed out that pressing the eggs beneath a coverslip greatly ...

This microscope image provided by Osaka University and the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in October 2024, shows the fertilization of a mouse egg marked in red and green. DNA is marked in ...